Camassia
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Read about Camassia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Camassia (Quamash or Camass is the Indian name). Sometimes written Quamasia. Liliaceae. Camass. West American spring-flowering bulbs. Leaves all radical, long-lance-shaped, sheathing, from a true bulb that is pointed and with a rounded rather flattened base: sts. erect, 2-3 ft., bearing many bracted blossoms that open from the bottom of the raceme upward, in long succession: fls. blue, purple, white or cream, with 6 spreading 3-7-nerved segms., 6 thread-like filaments, filiform style, and 3-angled, 3-valved, several-seeded caps.—Five or 6 species in the temperate regions of W. N. Amer. from Cent. Calif. to Brit. Col. and east to Texas and Ark. They have resemblances to Scilla, but are much handsomer. The bulbs produce no offsets unless wounded. All the species vary greatly in width of lvs., size and number of fls., so that definite figures mean little. The large bulb and broad bluish lvs. of C. Cusickii, the heavy st., regular fls., and twisted old segms. of C. Leichtlinii, the irregular fl. and drooping segms. of C. Quamash, and the time of flowering of C. Howellii, are good general characters to distinguish them. Camassias are natives of rich meadows, very wet in winter and spring but dry in summer. Water often stands on the surface at flowering time. While the very best success can perhaps be attained by giving them a rather heavy soil with abundant moisture in the early season, they are most amenable to cultivation and thrive in any loam (only avoiding too rank manures), and they are perfectly hardy. They have been thoroughly tested throughout the region from Illinois east. Plant in early fall, from 3 to 4 inches apart and 3 to 6 inches deep, and do not disturb thereafter. As cut-flowers, they are excellent as they open in long succession. Seeds grow readily, but from three to four years are required to make flowering plants.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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